BigISP<-->SmallISP peerings
Robert Laughlin
robert at portal.dx.net
Sat Oct 26 20:21:12 UTC 1996
I am trying to feel sorry for the poor burdened Large ISP.....:)
If it was just a matter of money, I would expect the large ISPs could add
to their revenue streams by offering peering at a price to those networks
they would otherwise not peer with. We have all heard that they are
deluged by requests, right? Maybe there are not enoungh networks
interested in such a service to make it worthwhile. Wait a
minute here, I thought they were overwelmed by requests....
Personally I question this idea of being deluged, after all there are only
a small number of networks at MAE-East which I believe has more IPs than
any other connection point. And the big guys *are* peered with many of
the networks connected there, so there are only a dozen or so left to
peer with. Maybe there is some kind of new math working here.
And BTW, I have not found a single large ISP willing to sell bi-lateral
peering to me and I *have* asked for price quotes on this.
Best Regards,
Robert Laughlin
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Zachary DeAquila <zachary at zachs.place.org> wrote:
>
> >Hrm. Does it matter if the small ISP already has transit with someone else?
> >In such a case, peering does nothing but shorten the path from SmallISP to
> >BigISP in order to no longer make it go through SmallISPs transit provider.
>
> Yes, but then from the point of view of large ISP the peering is of zero
> value. You see, it has to deliver packets to IXP anyway. OTOH, the
> load on routers, bloated configurations and engineering resources to
> support the additional peering are quite real.
>
> --vadim
>
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